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>Many royal courts throughout English royal history employed entertainers and most had professional fools, sometimes called "licensed fools".
gotta get my Fool Loicense if I wanna juggle for the king m8
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>Triboulet: "A noble has threatened to hang me!"
>The Monarch: "Don't worry! If he hangs you I'll have him beheaded fifteen minutes later."
>Triboulet: "Well, would it be possible to behead him 15 minutes before?"
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Learning that many court fools, now known as "natural fools", were simply people who were mentally retarded. The King would staff his court full of court dwarfs and retards, and just sit back and enjoy the action. But also these retards were given lots of care and affection and were looked after, with fancy clothes and such like.
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>Jesse Bogdonoff (born April 1, 1955) is a former Bank of America financial advisor to the government of Tonga and court jester of Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, the king of Tonga. He was embroiled in a financial scandal.[1]
what the fuck
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>Martin Luther used jest in many of his criticisms against the Catholic Church.[16] In the introduction to his To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, he calls himself a court jester, and, later in the text, he explicitly invokes the jester's privilege when saying that monks should break their chastity vows.[16]
Martin Luther was pulling the ole Jon Stewart "I'm just a comedy program bro!" way back in the 16th century
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I'm trying to find examples of Court Jesters humor so I can judge their material but there doesn't seem to be much of it online
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Kill Jester
>But sir... he is here to amuse you!
Don't care. Kill Jester
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>Jester's privilege is the ability and right of a jester to talk and mock freely without being punished. As an acknowledgement of this right, the court jester had symbols denoting their status and protection under the law: the crown (cap and bells) and scepter (marotte), mirroring the royal crown and scepter wielded by a monarch.[14][15]
The Royal Troll
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>Robert Armin (writer of Foole upon Foole, 1600) tells how Sommers humiliated Thomas, the King's juggler. He interrupted one of Thomas's performances carrying milk and a bread roll. Will asked the King for a spoon; the King replied he had none. Thomas told him to use his hands. Will then sang:
>This bit Harry I give to thee
>and this next bit must serve for me,
>Both which I'll eat apace.
>This bit Madam unto you,
>And this bit I my self eate now,
>And the rest upon thy face.[5]
>He then threw the milk in his face and ran out. Thomas was never at court again.
wow uh what a sick burn
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>He is remembered as a man of great intelligence and a political philosopher gifted with formidable insight into Poland's current and future situation. He used his job to criticize and warn his contemporaries by the use of satire. His witty jokes often pertained to current political or court matters. Stańczyk's remarks and jokes were preserved by numerous contemporary writers who praised him for fighting hypocrisy in the name of truth.
>Stańczyk became a popular historical figure in Polish literature after the partitions (1795). Some writers treated him as a symbol of Poland's struggle for independence
>The jester is depicted as the only person at a royal ball who is troubled by the news that the Muscovites have captured Smolensk.
I think this guy is a big origin point for the myth of the Jester as political truth speaker
>Almost nothing is known about Stańczyk's life and even his name and identity are a matter of dispute.
It appears that he also probably never even existed, but his legend still lives on because its an enduring idea
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>João de Sá (fl. 1524–1567), known as Panasco (a nickname that meant rudeness as revealed by clothes or manners), was a black African in the employ of King John III of Portugal, who was eventually elevated from court jester to gentleman courtier of the Royal Household.
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>Once, Triboulet slapped Francis I on the buttocks, to the enjoyment of the surrounding nobles. The monarch lost his temper and threatened to execute Triboulet. The monarch calmed down, and promised to forgive Triboulet if he could think of an apology more insulting than the offending deed. Triboulet responded: "I'm so sorry, your majesty, that I didn't recognize you! I mistook you for the Queen!"[3] Francis I ordered that he be put to death for once again violating his order not to make jokes about the queen and her courtiers. As he had served him particularly well for many years, the king granted Triboulet the right to choose how he would die. Triboulet said (translated from the original French): "Good sire, by Saint Goody Two Shoes and Saint Fatty, patrons of insanity, I ask to die from old age." Laughing, the king ordered that Triboulet not be executed but instead be banished from the realm.[4][5]
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@augustus grindset mentality
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@augustus today, we have a similar relationship between fediverse admins and their users
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@lain it was all just another of my fun wacky japes, your majesty. the money was just resting in the account.
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@augustus does jester's privilege work for tax fraud? asking for a friend.
augustus pugin 🌖
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